Our food – from what we eat to how it is grown – accounts for more carbon emissions than transport and yet staple crops will be hit tough by global warming
Did you know that what’s on your plate plays a larger role in contributing to climate change than the car you drive? When most wealthy people believe about their carbon footprint,or their contributions to climate change, they’ll believe about where their electricity and heat near from or what they drive. They’ll believe about fossil fuels and miles per gallon, and about LED lights and mass transit – but not so much about combine harvesters or processed meals or food waste. Few consider the impacts of the food they eat,despite the fact that globally, food systems account for roughly one quarter of all manmade greenhouse gas emissions. That’s more than the entire transportation sector, and more than all industrial practices,and roughly the same as the production of electricity and heat.
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Source: theguardian.com